#POLICY

1. Hong Kong issues a policy statement on the development of virtual assets;

2. Bank of Thailand needs more time to complete and launch retail digital currency;

3. Russian Minister of Finance said digital currencies are the future;

4. Singapore pilots tokenized fiat with smart contract capabilities;

5. India's central bank said token-based central bank digital currency is seen as the preferred model.

#CRYPTOCURRENCY

1. More than half of USDC balances are held in EOA wallets;

2. Aave is voting to deploy V3 to the zkSync 2.0 testnet;

3. Polkadot will implement Nomination Pools to help stakers who don't have enough DOT;

4. Bitcoin white paper has been published for 14 years.

#NFT

1. Cardano has become public chain with the third highest NFT transaction volume in the past 30 days.

#DEFI

1. $13.4M has returned from Team Finance Whitehat.

#FUNDING

1. Fireblocks-powered crypto custodian RakkaR Digital raises $10 million;

2. Contract lifecycle management vendor Icertis secures $150M in debt to stave off rivals;

3. Pantera backs Braavos' $10 million raise to simplify crypto wallets on StarkNet.

#METAVERSE

1. The Sandbox has nearly doubled its workforce by 2022;

2. Zebra Labs raises $5M to help Chinese celebrities enter the metaverse.

#OTHER

1. Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification;

2. 62% of Dogecoin hodlers in profit amid hopes of Twitter integration;

3. French lawyer asks Russian Patriarch to help save Alexander Vinnik from "political trial" in US;

4. Musk launches "Bring Vine back" Twitter poll;

5. Bitcoin miner Argo's $27M funding plan failed;

6. Twitter says Musk has become the sole director.